Joanna Kiernan

Career chronology

• Current at cutoff; start date not established: Asara Resources — Company Secretary. 2025 Annual Report (directors/company secretary); About / Proven Team (corporate directory)

• Concurrent role reported by issuer; dates not stated: Marvel Gold — Company Secretary. About / Proven Team (Company secretary profile)

Contributions and company outcomes

Kada resource and exploration growth under current team

2025–2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Asara’s 2026 filings report a 923 koz resource at Massan/Kada and active drilling; a 2026 quarter describes substantial resource growth and a A$60m placement supporting further exploration. The team’s roles overlap company progress, but personal responsibility is not isolated.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. These company outcomes overlap tenure for current management, where tenure is known; individual contribution is not separately established.

Relevance: Relevant to exploration-stage execution; no operating mine or production outcome yet.

Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 (June quarter resource/drilling and funding update); Corporate Presentation (Kada project/team)

Business failures and setbacks

Exploration-stage funding dependence; no producing mine

2025–2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Asara’s 2025 report describes an exploration entity with no operating cash flow and dependence on external financing. Subsequent A$60m financing materially supports continued work. This is a stage/funding risk, not evidence of executive misconduct.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Company financial condition overlaps management but does not establish individual failure or poor capital allocation.

Relevance: Relevant to stewardship and conversion of resources into a financeable project.

2025 Annual Report (material business risks, funding and cashflow); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 (June quarter financing and activities)

Suitability for the current role

Professional background and role relevance

Career record to cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

Asara’s current profile reports 18+ years administering listed companies, chiefly in resources, across ASX, AIM and SGX issuers, and concurrent company-secretary roles at Asara and Marvel Gold. The 2026 presentation confirms this governance remit. Public biographies reviewed do not disclose education, a full prior-company chronology, or the Asara appointment date; no claim is made about governance outcomes at former issuers without tenure-specific evidence.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Sources provide selected background details, mostly issuer-reported; independent corroboration is incomplete.

Relevance: Experience and qualifications are relevant to the current functional remit, with evidence limitations.

About / Proven Team (Joanna Kiernan biography); Corporate Presentation (board and corporate governance, p. 5)

Evidence gaps

• Several management roles lack appointment dates and full biographies in dated filings.

• Open-source review is not an exhaustive background, credentials, sanctions, litigation or regulator-record check.

• Guinea safety/environmental and community evidence is mainly issuer-reported in sources reviewed.